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Kotlin: Removing POJO Boilerplate

Steve Crow on February 24, 2018

Kotlin is very quickly becoming one of my all-time favorite languages to play with. It is a JVM language that offers static typing, built-in null s...
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Jan Wedel •

Although I like Kotlin because of great features like Coroutines, Pojos are not the key feature to me. This has been solved with Lombok in Java:

@Data
class Person {
    private String name;
    private int age;
}

It's not one line, but concise enough to me.

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Erik Nelson •

I will agree that there are definitely more compelling features in Kotlin than data classes. However, it feels cleaner being built into the language versus having to include Lombok's annotation processor.

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Sergei Munovarov • • Edited

Why not just move name and age to the class body? This way you get a no-arg constructor by default. And you can use with or apply elsewhere in code when instantiating Person.